Earlier this week, I ran in Nanaimo’s lovely Linley Valley with my buddy Stephanie. It was only my second time there and she had never been. I knew she would love it, being a trail girl and all. I had…
Category: Trails
Running to myself or how did I get here?
About this time last year, my running life knocked itself up a notch. I had been a runner for about a decade after not being a runner for several decades. It was not that I was not active; it was…
Trail running
I’ve discussed this topic before, but I can’t help it… I love running on trails! This past weekend I ran with friends on essentially the same trail two days in a row. I’d run these same trails before and the…
Cross training: Yard Raking
I went for a lovely run this morning in the sunshine with a friend. That alone is enough to cheer me up! As I ran I noticed that lots of folks had neat little piles of leaf and branch litter…
MapMyRun
I use an iPhone app called MapMyRun. It taps into the iPhone GPS and records my outdoor workouts. It specifically records the time, distance, elevation gain (great for running up mountains), pace and lays the route out on an interactive…
